To feel weird in Glastonbury

[Wellsbells]

I moved about a half hour’s drive from Glastonbury a few years ago but have only visited the town itself once. I hated it. It just felt uncomfortable and a bit sinister, and I couldn’t wait to leave. I’ve not felt that way anywhere else, I mean there are places I like more than others of course but this was just a really strong sense of “I want to get out of here”. Would be interested to know if anyone else has felt this way? Or about anywhere else?

You’ve clearly never been to Methyr Tydfil

I was really excited to visit Glastonbury as places with an atmosphere fascinate me. I felt nothing there, but couldn't wait to leave as I found most (not all) of the shopkeepers rude and unwelcoming. The Abbey was good though, and the staff there were nice. The children weren't touching anything and were being polite in the shops, as were we, but they clearly didn't want us spending money there.

I loved Bath, but found Tintern Abbey had a very strange atmosphere and I had a very weird experience there, and I know there is likely a logical explanation for it, but it was a strange place.

We went there one summer and i immediately felt cold and shaky and nauseous.

Perhaps your blood sugar was low. Happens to me all the time in many places where there hasn’t been a massacre nearby.

@artisanparsnips

Someone warned me off the 'mephitic vapours' of Bath once, but I've never felt it to be that odd. We live near both there and Glastonbury, and I don't really mind either of them.

The place that does feel most odd though, is the centre of Bruton, which is enclosed and lowering and all wrong. I was going to say despite the fact that lots of idiot posh people and Sarah Beeney live there, but maybe that's the problem. Although it's always felt peculiar, long before George Osborne.

I felt like that when I visited Bruton about 30 years ago now. A really nasty feeling.

Nope. But it’s becoming increasing full of covidiots, which is causing a bad vibe. we’ve had multiple anti mask/anti lockdown protests. We had people coming from as far as London for the solstice on top the tor, we are basically becoming covid soup with all those who refuse to wear masks, believe the vaccine conspiracies etc etc
There’s always been a bit of a asbo problem in town, drugs/alcohol but kind of comes with the territory of being a place where people come to “find them selves”.
Most local people love it but most are becoming increasing frustrated with people who think covid rules don’t apply to them and that it’s ok to drive several hours to come here during a pandemic!

I get the dread when I visit Yeovil. Becoming a horrible place over the last few years in the town, with all the closed down shops it’s feels really depressing and dank.

I think a PP was onto something with the Radon theory. I've read that somewhere before.

I've only been once, and the most sinister part was the fact it was pissing down.

But I loved it! Visited the abbey, saw the alleged burial sites of King Arthur and Guinevere, went to all the spooky witchy shops. Thought it was a wonderful place. Didn’t get a bad feeling at all.

I live about 40 minutes away but rarely visit. I really don't like it and it gives me a killer migraine each time .

It has a horrible violent past and nowadays attracts a lot of very damaged people with all the social problems that entails. It preys on the weak and the gullible and has a very cynical underbelly.

I have a close friend who said the same thing about Glastonbury too.

I didn't notice anything strange in Bath, Exeter, Tintern Abbey or Glastonbury (although the hippy place making a mandala out of pasta & handing out free marshmallows was... different).

The place that spooked both me & DH was Cardiff. We spent a day there exploring the shops & the castle, & it was only afterwards that we compared notes & found we'd both had a weird feeling which we'd never got anywhere else: as though there was something dangerous there that day. We both felt as though there was a bomb there, about to go off - that was the only way we could describe it, & it's very odd that we both felt the same thing. Nothing happened, of course, & we can't explain it.

You probably just went with a preconceived notion of it being 'spooky' and convinced yourself of the fact when you arrived.

Energy lines and radon, honestly people.

I grew up very close to Glastonbury, worked there and still live nearby.
I’m not a hippy or even close to it but I love Glastonbury!
It’s a fascinating town with interesting characters.. and very unusual shops.
I guess it’s like marmite though and it is very quirky.

Definitely agree I have worked in the area several times recently and Glastonbury just has its own vibe. I don't mean this in a derogatory way but it's like a cult town..

[quote Wellsbells]@avocadoinasidecar someone has written a book about my experiences? I wish they’d told me[/quote]

@thefemaleJoshLyman

Walsingham in Norfolk. One of the weirdest places I've ever been to. Very eerie, felt cold even on warm summer day. It is a place of pilgrimage but didn't feel the love.

I have a cottage there my Nan left me. Have been visiting my whole life. I love the place, the peace and the darkness at night but I do agree, the atmosphere there is odd. Like you've literally stepped back in time. It's like the ghosts of a thousand pilgrims are milling around the old streets and houses. I don't feel threatened at all by it though. It's like the place has accepted me and welcomes me.

I feel the same way about Lewes

Boscastle, Cornwall, about 1 year before the floods.
Myself and a friend only walked a few hundred yards from the car park, turned round, and went home. Had a weird vibe feeling for us both.

Me! I love the Tor and the springs but I feel genuinely ill in the town itself, even though on paper it should be my favourite place because I love a bit of woo and a crystals-and-incense shop and could cheerfully spend all day in the Henge shop at Avebury. I've been there three times and couldn't wait to leave every time.

*You’ve clearly never been to Methyr Tydfil grin

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@makingmiracles

I get the dread when I visit Yeovil. Becoming a horrible place over the last few years in the town, with all the closed down shops it’s feels really depressing and dank.

Well that’s one post I can agree with, Yeovil is awful especially the town.

Never felt more at peace in Glastonbury i love it!

I didnt like Glastonbury. Not because it felt weird but because it was just a bit crap.

Yeah Glastonbury is a bit bleak, same with Shepton Mallet. Glad it’s not just me!

I always feel uncomfortable in Glastonbury too but it's because of some of the people there, I always feel as though there is a potential for violence to kick off. That is in the main street though I like the Tor and the rural life museum.